Oh yes, we finally have it. I’ve been waiting for a few months. Its finally here. 1×1024MB@800MHz giving me 2 GB of RAM in total Though I still have that 2×512MB@533MHz meaning my performance hasn’t improved by leaps and bounds according to Windows but so far, everything seems a lot smoother. Now I can have better multi tasking

Plans are still under way to sell off the older RAM and get another 1×1024MB@800MHz. Still, future holds faster working and better multitasking

Tags: computer

Excuse the insanely ghastly time but I just completed my first resume about 10 minutes back. I just thought that if I can stay awake till 3:15 AM in the morning writing a resume, I can surely write a blog note to remind myself about this a few years down the line. This is where it all started. Your first resume is exactly 2 pages long, consists of 2 fonts in 3 different sizes using 3 styles of writing and is a 18,548 byte long docx file having 671 words (or so says Microsoft Office 2007 :P)

Just a note to future me reading this one, you didn’t have a crazy flash urge to write a resume 1 AM in the morning. You needed to have one for your mock interview scheduled at your college on Friday. Even though its only a mock interview, hope the mock panel doesn’t mock you and hope it actually gives you the mock job

Time to sleep and pull a rabbit out of the hat when I (hopefully miraculously) get up at 7AM in the morning for a 9:30 AM Microprocessors lecture. Thanks for wasting one and a half minute of your time that you’re probably never going to get back Be sure to waste another precious 30 seconds writing a bitching comment about this Round numbers are so much better than fractions

Tags: college, interview

Potter maniacs are out on the streets again with the latest movie in the Harry Potter series to grace the golden screen, ‘Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix‘. I for one went to Adlabs at the Palm Beach Galleria (Screen 2) to catch the first show at 10 AM on what seemed to be quite an early morning on Friday the 13^th

I loved the movie. It had more or less everything I wanted in the movie. I loved Alan Rickman playing Severus Snape, Imelda Staunton playing Dolores Umbridge and Evanna Lynch as Luna Lovegood after beating out 15,000 hopefuls for the role which had a line almost a mile long If you didn’t already know, Evanna Lynch is a huge Harry Potter fan

My favourite part was of course the fight at the end between Tom and Albus though all the other fights we depicted quite well as well. The part where Lord Voldemort possesses Harry and Harry realises that he is stronger because of all the love around him and his friends seemed to be kind of a cheap shot with Voldemort standing at the back a fake background created using a blue screen.

Overall it was a pretty nice movie. After the movie I hung out with a few friends at Center One
When I thought that was all the HP I’d have for the day, I was in for a surprise. At night, I saw a telecast of ‘Harry Potter and the Philosophers stone‘ on HBO I hadn’t seen it all that well the first time (when I caught it on Pogo a few years back 8-))

Not to mention the fact that the last book in the series, ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows‘ is going to come out this in less than a week’s time. I just hope that my friends read it quickly so that I can have a crack at it asap I’d rather read it myself that have the story told to me so I’ll probably stay off the internet until I get the book Not to mention that if someone randomly calls me and tells me the story, I’ll kill them

In case someone didn’t already know this, I thought its time I told the (very few) people actually reading this a little trick I use (in case they already didn’t know) to guess what’s going to happen in the upcoming book (since it is the last one :)). Always catch the movie because the movie can’t be as long and detailed as the book. They have to cut out some parts (unless its made by Peter Jackson :P). “WTF? Have you gone insane? They are showing us less things. How can that be good? ”
If you haven’t realised, here’s the secret. If they (script writers/directors/other people related to the development of the movie) cut out parts that are important for future plot lines (like unreleased books), the book writer (JKR) has to point it out to avoid problems.

What you must know about movie #5 is that in the initial script, Kreacher was left out. JKR has been quoted to say “You know, I wouldn’t [cut him] if I were you. Or you can, but if you get to make a seventh film, you’ll be tied in knots.” Needless to say, Kreacher was added back into the script albeit for only 2 scenes.
Now all you Potter-maniacs should be out trying to figure out all the things you thought were important/unimportant in the previous books that weren’t/were included in the previous movies and form your own theories about the final movie
Happy spell casting

Tags: Harry Potter, movies

Finally I have my ps2 chipped and its time to have fun. Before I go further, I think I must say that no, my exams aren’t over. After my last paper on the 9th, I went to the passport office on the 11th (Monday) and later got my ps2 chipped. I also got some games for 50inr each.
Here is a list of the games I already had

Then I went out and bought my self a couple

I also bought Rainbow Six: Lock Down and Final Fantasy 12 but they aren’t working
Then just today I went over to a friend and borrowed 4 more games which are Devil May Cry 3, Hitman: Blood Money, DragonBall Z: Budokai Tenkaichi and Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects. Unfortunately the DBZ game is detected as a PS2 disc at first but later asks me to insert a ps/ps2 disc
The games which didn’t work shall be returned next time I go anywhere around VT. And oh, I have my last paper on the 19th (Applied Mathematics 4). I wonder if and when I’ll get any studies done
Currently I’m in love with Burnout 3: Takedown and Smack down vs Raw 2007 but I also like God of War II, Devil May Cry 3 and Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects. The latter 3 have similar gameplays but I haven’t played GoW2 and DMC 3 as much as MN:RotI which I have been on for a few hours straight now It satisfies my love for comics which I never read but loved via the movies and cartoons

PS: Got any game suggestions? Fire away

As like every year, AIEEE season brings in tonnes of visitors to my site each asking God knows what not.
I don’t know how they expect me to get them their hall tickets or their results but when they just need a general about something, I try to help them out. This year was no different. At a certain time, in fact the load was so high that the guys at dreamhost had to send an email notifying me that the server was under load due to the high activity.
Solution? Install wp-cache to cache the pages thus decreasing the server load a few thousand times over This is like a yearly digg effect without the involvement of digg
I am pretty sure people don’t even read what I have to say because if they did, they would notice that I am just “another engineering student“ and that I am in no way linked with the guys who run the AIEEE website.

Oh well.. As for the latest developments, my sem 4 exams are going on which as every sem shall end on the 19th of June lasting just a tad bit under a month like every time Fun days, eh? Vacation seems to be pretty well lined up just like every time Planning to watch a few of the movies that have released recently that was on my to watch list. Hopefully this comes true. My console will be up so its gaming time \o/ And then we have our AXIS work Its going to be a great month or two. A few key decisions need to be made about future plans too. Should be fun.
PS: Happy now Knuckles? I updated it

Being in RCF has always given me the chance to spend every Republic day and Independence day morning in our own parade. This year however being called out for a PCom lecture made me feel a bit sad however during the break I got to witness something I didn’t know even happened in our city!

The lecture was in Dadar and as me and my friend went to have a bite during the break we noticed a Republic day parade! We had all the policemen, fireman and other services along with some army weapons on display (which didn’t see real at all. They were more of a mock up of the real thing. Atleast they tried :P) There were also a few school kids from Don Bosco marching for environmental awareness. We just got to see the last 5 minutes but from what I got from a police officer, the parade lasted 45 minutes and goes along a long route before it ends at 5 gardens. I loved the dodgy look the officer gave me on inquiring. I asked him “Excuse me sir. How long has this parade been going on for?” and he replied “err why are you asking?”

Anyway, its good to see such events. Maybe next time I’ll spend I-D or R-D in Dadar. I might be one hundreds of onlookers on Tilak Bridge or atop the Dadar bridge looking down at the whole thing Wanna join me?

Exams are finally over. 3 good papers and 3 bad ones. Don’t know what the future holds academically so I’ve decided to re-prioritize my activities for the next semester. Anyway, the holidays are here This is what’s been up for so long.

I completed my work on j@x and I also did a script called Uptime Challenge for the Messenger Plus! Scripting Competition. Work on my project for the AXIS will begin soon and in the mean while I got an early Christmas present. Its something that I desperately needed. A new keyboard. Its hot! I love the customisable multimedia keys. I can launch Winamp, edit its play list, jump tracks, launch PCTV and do anything I want with this. Its really cool I just got it today. All I need now is a good mouse but the ones I have my eyes on are too costly. So I’m not buying anything. That’s my PC shopping pretty much for a year or so at least

Have a look at my new Navigator Keyboard

Happy holidays and remember to keep out some cookies for Santa

Its been 3 years since our last big family trip which was to Udaipur so this trip was a welcome relief. I really loved Jaipur. Its by far the best non hill station tourist spot ive been to up north. Then came Agra, Fatehpur Sikri, Mathura and Vrindavan. I must say, nothing beats seeing the Taj Mahal at sunrise Fatehpur Sikri was a great place to goto.

I cba to up 500+ MB of pics but ill definately up the really good ones once i get time Especially the pics of the Taj Mahal for lopardo and the one special pic for ddunk

AXIS dominated at the Praxis winning 8 certi’s and a prize (which only the team members know about atm. Its a secret :P). Here are the final few words from my review of the event on the AXIS site.

Overall we bagged 8 certi’s and a secret prize (to be revealed soon ). Dont know about you sam but i started brainstorming the moment we were standing on the 5th floor and talking just before you got your certi’s. Next year, we want an AXIS 1-2 (and a 1-2-3 if we can get 3 teams/projects/packages up )

All hail, the AXIS is here. With its first major title under its weight, we annouce our arrival. If youre against us, you better be ready cause we’re coming all guns blazing

Just as a footnote for personal reminders, i rappelled down the VESIT building yesterday. Nice view standing on the side of a 5 storey building, i must say

The story begins 6 months and 16 days ago when i got a New Keyboard. I must confess, i have been wanting to make my keyboard a DAS Keyboard like segosa did ever since i got this cheap keyboard. The opportunity came up a few days back when i got a free Maple keyboard meaning that my keyboard was now redundant. Thus taking this opportunity i consumed an entire satrurday night to do this. I experimented with different ways and found that the sand paper should be really good. I just stuck with a metallic blade used to cut thermocol sheets and removed all the paint marks, being careful not to leave marks though.

I already know from the experience of removing the text of the shift button on the same keyboard that it doesnt take long for the key to perfectly smoothen out and lose almost all of the marks that it was tampered with (unless you look at it closely) though i confirmed this fact as well. Either way, i just went one step ahead and blackened the parts which were white so that it doesnt look odd in the morning when my parents see it cause they are gonna be freaked about the blankness of this keyboard.

Another good thing to do at 3 am in the night For those who dont know what a DAS keyboard is, you can visit the official site or visit seogsa’s page on creating a DAS Keyboard.

Yeah now i am going to bed =p